So while I do like Le Guen, I’ll remind everyone that PLG always used the same 11.

Perrin doesn’t have a lot to do to succeed more than his predecessors, since they all failed miserably in the CL.

Miserably because they should have sent PSV back home if PLG had been less tentative, and beaten Milan if Houllier hadn’t screwed everything with his subs (I’m not even talking about the Roma debacle).

Perrin will do as well as the others, and with a little luck better.
But all of these guys aren’t CL winning coaches caliber if that’s you ask. Perrin is a decent coach, PLG is a decent coach, but both lack the experience and assurance to try things at the highest level. Both seem tentative against big teams. They both lack ambition and are playing like they’re the underdogs.

What Lyon needs is a proven winner. Even an asshole like Capello or even a lower profile Deschamps.

I really do think the 4-4-2 can work really well. Benzema likes to have his support striker. And it is a shame to keep Baros and Fred off the pitch. Because despite their actual form, they are incredible goal scorers. May I remind you that Fred is scoring 1 goal every two games in average…
And everytime Baros is on the pitch, Benzema scores more goals. Also, it would allow us to plays 4 midfielder and use Bodmer a bit more.
I would be happy to have games without real wingers, and give them some rest.

a midfield with Toulalan, Santos (Bodmer), Kallstrom and Juninho looks great.

As you said Inara, lots of our players can play in different positions. Then let’s do it. Let’s put Bodmer as the playmaker. Let’s put Ben Arfa (or Govou) as a supporting striker.

But I honestly see Perrin stay for a long time in Lyon. although lots of people say he has no previous record, he did great with Troyes and always had better results than Lyon in the French cup (If you compare the level of the teams). But he needs to “trust himself” as you said.

Also, Ederson and Lloris certainly played like they wanted to impress the Lyon staff and fans. Id welcome both with open arms, they are phenomenal players.

It’s just that he seems scared sometimes. At the beginning, he took risks, and I didn’t mind that. He made the effort to discover his best starting 11 (though he made a poor decision in experimenting against Barca and Rangers). But now he doesn’t want to do that anymore. Lyon are so versatile and we have two players – Bodmer and Ben Arfa – who can be utilized in other ways, perhaps in better ways. And what does it say that three of our summer signings hardly see pitch time?

Evilo, do you think Perrin can be successful for Lyon? And when I say successful, I mean as in doing better than his predecessors? Obviously there is a certain amount of luck involved (like no more bad injuries), but do you think he has what it takes to stop Lyon from being big match bottlers?

When it’s going wrong, the coach always gets blamed for his tactics.
However, you never notice good tactics when your team wins.

I blamed Perrin for his rookie mistake in Barcelona. He killed his team with his tactics then. He didn’t right he ship against the Rangers at Gerland (nothing on the wings). I also didn’t like his subs in Glasgow. Nor his using (or lackthere of) of Bodmer.

However, the way Lyon played Stuttgart was brilliant both times. He did well against Barca in the home game (that Lyon should have lost if not for Juni, Keita and good defensive schemes).

About the tactics, I completely agree with you. I looks like he has given up on making the plans by himself and let players play and Aulas decide. At least this is the impression that I get.

But I just feel he is tactically limited.